The following steps will allow you to access the User Interface (UI) for the iSCSI Initiator on a Windows Server 2008 Server Core installation, as an alternative to using ISCSCLI from the CMD line to configure the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator settings. There are two important caveats: 1. This is strictly speaking, unsupported, since this functionality…

This script can be run from the command line including Server Core to quickly connect to an iSCSI target Pre-Requisites: Windows host running the Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator (You can check the iSCSI initiator location guide on how to get the initiator here: http://blogs.msdn.com/san/archive/2008/07/28/microsoft-iscsi-software-initiator-location-guide.aspx 2. Pre-configured iSCSI target. You will first need to create…

The Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator implements a number of key features in the initiator to protect against loss of connectivity to an iSCSI target. These include support for Microsoft MPIO, (MCS) multiple connections per session, portal hopping, as well as advanced error recovery. The loss of connection to an iSCSI target portal could be…

Windows Server supports a broad ecosystem of SAN storage arrays and enterprise class storage devices. The Windows Server tested products catalog includes listing for hardware devices which have been qualified using the Windows Logo tests to validate interoperability with the Windows Server platform. Home Page for Windows server tested products http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/results.aspx?bCatID=1338&cpID=0&avc=10&OR=1 There are 2…

below is a quick command line reference for iSNS. More details available in our user guide http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0dbc4af5-9410-4080-a545-f90b45650e20&displaylang=en Usage: ISNSCLI [program function] [parameter0] [parameterN] Program functions: ListNodes LN Lists all registered Nodes. A Node is an iSCSI initiator or target. ListNodeDetails [Node] LND [Node] Lists details for the specified Node, such as Node attributes and related…

To install MPIO on Server core on Windows Server 2008 run this command from a command prompt “ocsetup MultipathIo /norestart” and then run “ mpclaim –r –i –a “” ” This command Installs the Microsoft MPIO Optional Component on non Server Core installations and then sets the Microsoft MPIO DSM (MSDSM) to claim all unclaimed…